German referee Robert Hoyzer has been been banned from football for life after he admitted match-fixing.

Hoyzer was revealed to have fixed the match which saw Hamburg knocked out of the German cup by Paderborn.

The match, which led to the sacking of Hamburg coach Klaus Toppmoller, saw some odd decisions by Hoyzer, including the sending off of the club's striker Emile Mpenza for no apparent reason.

Rainer Koch, of the German football federation DFB, said: "Hoyzer has caused serious damage to German football in general and German referees in particular for which we have only one sanction within the sport.

"He will still have to appear in a court of law but that is separate from this judgement."